Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around

The men's artistic gymnastics individual all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics was held at the North Greenwich Arena on 28 July and 1 August 2012.[1] It included 41 competitors from 27 nations.[2]

Men's artistic individual all-around
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Gold medalist Kōhei Uchimura (2011)
VenueNorth Greenwich Arena 1
Dates28 July – 1 August
Competitors41 from 27 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kōhei Uchimura  Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Marcel Nguyen  Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Danell Leyva  United States
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Kōhei Uchimura of Japan won the gold medal, his nation's first victory in the men's all-around since 1984 and its fifth overall. (At that point, Japan was second to the Soviet Union, whose gymnasts won the event six times; Uchimura would win again in 2016, bringing the two nations even.) Uchimura was the 14th man to earn multiple all-around medals, adding to his silver from 2008.

Germany's Marcel Nguyen earned silver, the first men's all-around medal for a German gymnast (including the United Team of Germany, East Germany, and West Germany) since the 1936 Games in Berlin. Danell Leyva of the United States took bronze.

Background edit

This was the 26th appearance of the men's individual all-around in the Olympics. The event was first held in 1900 and has been included in every Games since then.[2]

Two of the top 10 gymnasts from the 2008 Games returned in 2012: Uchimura and seventh-place finisher Fabian Hambüchen of Germany. Uchimura had won the past three World Championships and was the favorite coming into the Games.[2]

Azerbaijan made its debut in the event. France made its 24th appearance, the most of any nation.

Qualification process edit

Qualification for the 2012 Olympics was based primarily on the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The top 8 teams at the world championships could send a full team of 5 gymnasts to the Olympics. The teams ranked 9th through 16th competed in the 2012 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event, where the top 4 finishers also qualified full teams for the Olympics.

The individual apparatus medalists from the World Championships also qualified, if their nation had not already qualified a team. The FIG Executive Board made invitational selections to ensure host country and continental representation, and the Tripartite Commission made an invitation. The remainder of the quota of 98 gymnasts was filled through the individual all-around rankings at the Test Event, with only one gymnast per nation able to qualify in that manner.

At the Games, the top 24 competitors in the qualification phase (with a limit of two per country), based on combined scores on all six apparatuses, advanced to the individual all-around final.[2] The finalists performed on each apparatus again. Qualification scores were then ignored, with only final-round scores counting.[3]

Results edit

Qualifying edit

Rank Gymnast Nation             Total Notes
1 Danell Leyva   United States 15.100 14.866 14.600 15.500 15.333 15.666 91.265 Q
2 David Belyavskiy   Russia 15.100 14.900 14.366 16.300 15.300 14.866 90.832 Q
3 Fabian Hambüchen   Germany 15.133 14.100 14.766 15.833 15.300 15.633 90.765 Q
4 John Orozco   United States 15.166 14.766 15.066 15.800 14.533 15.266 90.597 Q
5 Kristian Thomas   Great Britain 15.366 14.133 14.566 16.200 15.625 15.366 90.256 Q
6 Nikolai Kuksenkov   Ukraine 14.533 14.900 15.000 15.766 15.066 14.666 89.931 Q
7 Marcel Nguyen   Germany 14.433 13.900 15.100 14.875 15.535 15.000 89.833 Q
8 Emin Garibov   Russia 14.533 14.233 14.633 15.233 15.600 15.566 89.798 Q
9 Kōhei Uchimura   Japan 15.766 12.466 14.966 16.033 15.533 15.000 89.764 Q
10 Daniel Purvis   Great Britain 15.200 13.400 15.033 16.100 14.733 14.733 89.199 Q
11 Sérgio Sasaki   Brazil 14.533 14.033 14.633 16.200 15.200 14.533 89.132 Q
12 Alexander Shatilov   Israel 15.633 14.133 14.033 15.533 14.700 15.000 89.032 Q
13 Oleg Verniaiev   Ukraine 15.033 14.366 14.600 16.333 14.566 14.066 88.964 Q
14 Cyril Tommasone   France 14.500 15.333 14.166 15.466 15.100 14.133 88.698 Q
15 Fabián González   Spain 15.266 14.733 14.033 16.000 13.333 15.000 88.365 Q
16 Javier Gómez Fuertes   Spain 14.833 13.833 13.900 15.958 15.066 14.544 88.123 Q
17 Philipp Boy   Germany 14.766 14.333 14.166 15.700 14.933 13.800 87.698 2 per NOC
18 Koji Yamamuro   Japan 14.433 14.400 14.900 15.333 14.200 14.366 87.632 Q, withdrew
19 Claudio Capelli   Switzerland 14.766 14.133 14.133 15.200 14.600 14.766 87.598 Q
20 Oleg Stepko   Ukraine 15.033 14.400 14.866 15.916 13.366 13.466 87.047 2 per NOC
21 Enrico Pozzo   Italy 14.766 13.633 14.033 15.600 14.366 14.500 86.898 Q
22 Kazuhito Tanaka   Japan 13.666 12.200 15.100 15.750 15.725 14.400 86.841 Q
23 Kim Soo-myun   South Korea 14.766 13.433 13.833 15.666 14.700 13.933 86.331 Q
24 Paolo Ottavi   Italy 14.266 13.700 14.866 14.933 14.500 14.066 86.331 Q
25 Flavius Koczi   Romania 15.666 13.400 14.600 16.066 13.500 12.633 85.865 Q
26 Sergio Muñoz   Spain 14.600 14.000 13.966 16.000 13.833 13.266 85.665 2 per NOC
27 Joshua Jefferis   Australia 13.800 13.433 14.533 15.500 14.566 13.766 85.598 Q
28 Roman Kulesza   Poland 13.933 12.966 13.466 14.900 14.700 14.733 84.698 Q
29 Guo Weiyang   China 12.266 13.266 14.400 15.300 13.966 14.933 84.131
30 Stepan Gorbachev   Kazakhstan 13.900 13.733 13.533 15.666 13.433 13.666 83.931
31 Jimmy Verbaeys   Belgium 14.500 10.866 14.066 15.266 14.533 14.333 83.564
32 Felix Aronovich   Israel 14.033 13.433 14.100 13.900 14.233 13.500 83.199
33 Jorge Hugo Giraldo   Colombia 13.400 12.166 14.933 15.466 13.633 13.500 83.098
34 Martin Konečný   Czech Republic 14.266 12.900 13.166 14.866 13.733 14.100 83.031
35 Manuel Campos   Portugal 14.166 12.500 14.433 14.200 14.400 13.200 82.899
36 Artur Davtyan   Armenia 13.800 13.900 13.400 14.166 14.233 13.366 82.865
37 Mohamed El-Saharty   Egypt 13.900 12.600 13.566 15.466 13.400 13.666 82.598
38 Dmitrijs Trefilovs   Latvia 12.900 14.233 13.133 14.733 13.533 14.033 82.565
39 Fabian Leimlehner   Austria 12.966 12.100 13.633 14.966 14.200 13.533 81.398
40 Shakir Shikhaliyev   Azerbaijan 14.600 12.866 13.166 15.433 13.666 10.633 80.364
41 Matteo Morandi   Italy 14.133 0.000 15.766 15.633 14.500 0.000 60.032

Only two gymnasts per country were allowed to advance to the all-around final. The following gymnasts finished in the top 24 in the qualifying round but did not advance because of the two-per-country rule:[4]

Kazuhito Tanaka (22nd place) was initially excluded by the two-per-country rule as well, but advanced to the final after his teammate Koji Yamamuro was injured on vault during the men's team competition.[5]

Final edit

Rank Gymnast Nation             Total
  Kōhei Uchimura   Japan 15.100
(8)
15.066
(2)
15.333
(2)
16.266
(1)
15.325
(7)
15.600
(2)
92.690
  Marcel Nguyen   Germany 15.300
(5)
13.666
(17)
15.366
(1)
15.666
(9)
15.833
(=1)
15.200
(4)
91.031
  Danell Leyva   United States 15.366
(4)
13.500
(19)
14.733
(14)
15.566
(10)
15.833
(=1)
15.700
(1)
90.698
4 Nikolai Kuksenkov   Ukraine 14.633
(11)
14.600
(5)
15.200
(=3)
15.533
(=11)
15.400
(=4)
15.066
(6)
90.432
5 David Belyavskiy   Russia 14.466
(15)
14.866
(3)
14.833
(9)
16.200
(3)
15.166
(10)
14.766
(12)
90.297
6 Kazuhito Tanaka   Japan 14.166
(18)
13.433
(20)
15.200
(=3)
15.533
(=11)
15.500
(3)
15.575
(3)
89.407
7 Kristian Thomas   Great Britain 15.566
(2)
14.566
(6)
14.633
(15)
14.908
(20)
14.733
(=17)
15.000
(7)
89.406
8 John Orozco   United States 15.433
(3)
12.566
(23)
15.200
(=3)
15.900
(8)
15.266
(8)
14.966
(=8)
89.331
9 Fabián González   Spain 14.600
(12)
14.733
(4)
13.966
(23)
16.133
(4)
14.400
(=21)
15.166
(5)
88.998
10 Sérgio Sasaki   Brazil 14.233
(17)
14.366
(=7)
14.233
(17)
16.100
(5)
15.200
(9)
14.833
(=10)
88.965
11 Oleg Verniaiev   Ukraine 14.533
(13)
13.966
(14)
14.866
(=7)
16.233
(2)
15.033
(12)
14.300
(17)
88.931
12 Alexander Shatilov   Israel 15.600
(1)
14.266
(=9)
14.200
(=18)
15.133
(18)
14.400
(=21)
14.833
(=10)
88.432
13 Daniel Purvis   Great Britain 15.166
(7)
14.266
(=9)
14.800
(=10)
16.000
(=6)
13.600
(24)
14.500
(=13)
88.332
14 Emin Garibov   Russia 14.475
(14)
14.233
(11)
14.866
(=7)
14.833
(21)
15.366
(6)
14.233
(18)
88.006
15 Fabian Hambüchen   Germany 15.200
(6)
13.266
(21)
14.800
(=10)
14.766
(22)
15.400
(=4)
14.333
(16)
87.765
16 Cyril Tommasone   France 13.500
(22)
15.333
(1)
14.400
(16)
15.358
(16)
15.000
(13)
14.066
(20)
87.657
17 Claudio Capelli   Switzerland 14.866
(9)
14.366
(=7)
14.166
(20)
14.566
(23)
14.850
(15)
14.500
(=13)
87.314
18 Enrico Pozzo   Italy 14.700
(10)
13.900
(15)
14.000
(=21)
15.466
(=13)
14.533
(20)
14.433
(15)
87.032
19 Joshua Jefferis   Australia 14.066
(19)
13.533
(18)
14.800
(=10)
15.433
(15)
14.900
(14)
14.133
(19)
86.865
20 Kim Soo-myun   South Korea 12.266
(24)
13.700
(16)
14.200
(=18)
16.000
(=6)
14.641
(19)
14.966
(=8)
85.773
21 Jimmy Verbaeys   Belgium 13.933
(20)
14.033
(=12)
14.000
(=21)
15.266
(17)
14.833
(16)
13.166
(23)
85.231
22 Paolo Ottavi   Italy 12.466
(23)
14.033
(=12)
15.016
(6)
15.000
(19)
14.100
(23)
14.033
(21)
84.648
23 Javier Gómez Fuertes   Spain 14.266
(16)
12.433
(24)
14.800
(=10)
15.466
(=13)
14.733
(=17)
12.733
(24)
84.431
24 Roman Kulesza   Poland 13.866
(21)
13.000
(22)
13.866
(24)
14.400
(24)
15.100
(11)
13.933
(22)
84.165

Number in brackets indicates rank in the event.

References edit

  1. ^ Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Archived 2012-09-18 at archive.today
  2. ^ a b c d "Individual All-Around, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  3. ^ Format Competition – Artistic Gymnastic Archived 2012-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ https://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/m_12olympics_qual.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  5. ^ "Injury forces gymnast Yamamuro out of men's all-around". August 2012.